Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committees that carry on the work of PBH is the Speakers' Committee which sponsored several talks in the West End House last year, along with some 150 others in high schools and settlement houses on subjects ranging from public health (by Med School students) to life in the Orient (by an undergraduate from Japan). Magicians, clowns, musicians, and other entertainers recruited by the Speakers' Committee filled the entertainment side of the ledger...
Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...
...remembering the recent attempted assassination of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (TIME, Aug. 25), Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was on a spot. Either a difficult war or a new wave of political assassinations was possible. Knowing how little the Axis had to offer, weighing the combined Allied might in the Orient, sensing the industrial and commercial profits to be gained from a Pacific peace, Prince Konoye must have hoped that some arrangement could be worked out with the stiffening...
Narrow Roadway. The mere fact that Japan had asked for a meeting was a diplomatic victory for the U.S. Where solemn words and warnings had failed to halt Japanese aggression in the Orient, bold acts had prevailed. By strangling Japan's trade with the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt had suggested to the Japanese that it might be a good idea to pause and talk things over...
...while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...